Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1880, Page 6

LETT FROM THE PE: Justice to the District. PAvor Star-—One of the most important of the recommendations of the President’s mes- sage in relation to the affairs of the nationa! capital seems to aave escaped the attention of the public press fm this city. I refer to the par- #gfaph in which the message calls attention to the fact that the District of Columbia has not received any share whatever, of the lands do- y ot Congress from Ume to time tn jon, and in very plain terms asks ure to do justice to the people of the District th this respect. Tue x- ecutive having thus placed the Injustice of tue legislation of Congress towards the citizens of the District In reference w aid to educati . in sueh a Clear and strong light, the agitation ot the subject should be kept up uatil the wroay sbaii be remedied. ‘The injury which bas been done to the edu- cational intercsts of the District by the omis- sion which the resident points out, has been ne slight one. The tax-payers here have for Jears been compelled to provide educational facditles for a large transient population Drought hither by Peps business, without any Of thax national aid which has been so linerally ext ended to education in all the states and ter- fitories. These gifts to tbe states amount tn the aggregate to many milifons of dollars, while this District has wever recelved one cent trom that source. ‘The people of tne national eapital have been airly and ubgenerousiy treated tu reference to this matter. They have a right to ask for thelr share of special donations of public lands, as “a matter of simple justice,” to use the Law guage of the President. We should. moreover lave our share of these puolic ands in order 19 £ usa fair start under the foaal bili Low pending in Congress aud likely to beco.uc a law. In determining the quantity of lands to be given tothe Dfsirtet tor educational ould be taken In the grea nt DOW-taxpaye by its large population of fr ance should also be made for the delay ng the grant. A caretul computation sho aby settlement at all equitabie of the ars due the District on this account would give 1c. fund of at least one million of dollars. Which Invested a3 permanent loan to the gov erpmient at four per cent. would very material | jy aid in the endowment of the tnsiitutions of Higher education, which are so much needed at national capital. Editor Star: hen a man becomes a Sena- eis presumed to know the Constitution ws of his country and the history of his | To use the Words of your own adie | umely article In Monday's ‘Star: “A bill passed the Senate requiring the police to ¢ and Inspect, from time to time, with. | previous notice to the ocenpant, ail pre- | eS where Potomac water is taken or used. Mr. Editor, the 4th article of the Federal Con- sufution distinctly declares “The night of the people to be secure tn thelr persous. houses, papers and eéffects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, \d no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable canse, supported by oath or affirmation, par- | ticularly describing the place to be searched apd the persons or things to be seized.” Such tclliary visits as those provided for In the inreasonable searches,” &c. Tue bill ‘There 8 JUSTICE. Dhi is, therefore, Clearly unconstitutional. isnot & Senator or member who would dare | Vote such a law upon the people of his own State or district. and the Senators know *{he constitutional provision above quoted Intended to prevent just visits a8 are provided for i this senatorial bill. ‘The framers of this constitutional provision Were well acquainted with the history of Eaz- lish domiciliary visits, around them €lustered the darkest and most rocious incidents of English bistory. “1 mans house ts his eesile” I$ one of the ol maxims of the Jaw. Every man has under the Constitution and laws of nfs c sf a sistance to any Mau or to enter bis house fi = bis house shatl n ie searcues, and the © the supreme law of the T towards nbers read the id the history | JS. B. sLok who has pleut a ® jar employment. thing he bas Inherited Wealth, whick is no fault of his, pus, ou the contrary, a thing whicu he could not heip. The snob’ ts sometimes well educated: that fs to say, he has been in acertaln way furnished with something procured at schools and which passes for education, although It does not always store the mind with vaiua- | bie knowledge. ‘This ts very much accord Ing to the use made of It to passing through these educational establishments. The snoo | is not studious. If he were he would n beasnobd. His furnishing ts that of ratment | and jewelry rather than the adorai t tue mind. Having littie to occupy him ac home he has abundant letsure for travel, his preference | usually betng for foreign countries rather than | fer what isto be seen in his own land. Tuere is more opportuaity for putting on airs in a for- eign country than there is among American | sigbt-seera, ‘There are more cathedrals and | castles and pleture-gallertes and ruins in Ea- rope than there are Im this country; and It is among these that the snob particularly delizhts to spread himself The snob is exceedingly happy when toadying to titled foreigners, a | thing for which Ameriéan travel affords tittie | Or no opportunity. One of the ridiculous features of the traveling ‘snob’s conversation ts bis exaltation of all that 4s foreign and the contempt of the tastitutions | of bis own country. General Grant took oc casion in one of his speechlets delivered a few evenings ago at Washingzton to administera Severe rebuke to the whole army of traveling ‘Snobs for this offensive habit. TheGeneral has | @ very acquaintance with snobs of all sorts, but his travels among foretra coun tries he has been especially disgusted by the remarks and the bearing of the class alluded to. AS mest of these persons are of the sort whe a rather nt ree thought —— than Bot thought of at ail. they are not likely to be offended by an adverse crittctsm. ‘The general's opinion of them fs that they are Shallow, and that they have made but tittle acquaintance, either by study or travel, with the land they left behind them. To hear these people talk and to see them put on airs is enough to make a plain American ashamed of them. The influence which these people carry, Sbobs though they are, is considerable in its way, for itis that which wealth carries, and in many quarters wealth is power. Exactly how much harm the snob inftuence abroad may have done us 5 4 matter which will never be definitely powerless to reach it. It is certain, however, that the snobs have gone enough mischief to make it an object to Put a stopper on them. If some sensible American traveler could but follow tn the wake of every snob, or rise up tn his presence and take sport of his ridiculous ways and bis empty pretensions, he might be driven back to hisobscurity, But sensible travelers have Det- ter business to attend to, and there ts little hepe that the snobs wiil have thelr ways mended by apy such effort. Meanwhile the Steamers and railroads continue to carry snobs at the same rates charged for ordinary passen- gers. jopg as traveling is fashionable, and that ‘¥ will for all time be the same ridiculous stobs that they are toda A Great Specuiator’s Gratitude. (Wall Street Daliy News. it happened twenty years ago, when people Rad an idea that gratitude was ready to bub- bie up iu the human heart at a moment's no- | lice. A stock speculator was waiting at the corner of Broadway and Vessey street for an Omnibus. Whether he fell tnto a reverie over the graves just over the fence or was wonder- ing tf Lake Shore would advance another peg, Hiallers Rot. A runaway horse took the side- Walk Just Delow him, and so deep was the Speculator's re ae see: be would have been ber! silted had not a frien band chutehed ana dracaed Thi asice. oy “My friend, you have saved my life!” gas; ‘the resened man, as he realized ils excage. = “Yerbaps 80, but don’t mention it I'm glad to have been of service to you.” “Oh, nothing, I guess.” “But 1 shail” 1 speculate in stocks. 1 shail tomorow buy $i0,00 worth of Lime Ledge fenal stock for you, hold ‘t preening as your Droker, aad Totits f ay: Tole conduct as protits fora year. Such he- Fours must, not go unrewarded. cae one year from Joun Smith sat tn his ofice. A boy Soneaen ‘and handed htm aletter. He Opened it to find That lt Was from the man whose life he had Baved. He also found that the $10,000 had been Invested as promised, but that Lime Ledge Block had falling a itttle ali te time, 40 had been lost. Eo” Slosed wasa statement anda Dill for the de- Whieh be was asked to remit by such domiciltary | ‘They remembered tht { ®trae Chri | ing back to back under tue o The probability is that they will travel | RELIG{(OUS NOTES —A hundfed of the French Jesuits hava ap- peared in Constantinople. 4 — Missionaries are said to be overwhelmed with gifts of patent medicines for the heathen. —The Congregational °church tn Salt Lake City, Utah, recently received fifty-five persons membership, to ), of whom fifty united on confes- sion of faith. —Canon Basil Wilberforce, son of Bishop 18 delivering a series of lectures the doctrine of everlasting punishment. — A new sect has arisen in Saxony called the ject is to Incite the people th to Caucacus to “Scape the coming of antl-Christ from the west. — Itis reported that the statistics of the Re- formed Episcopal Church show a greater addi tion to {fs membership during the past year than in any preceding one, not excepting the first year of 1ts organization. Times, organ of the Ritualists, 1s tts free criti- cisins of the bishops. As It remarks tn a recent issue, the only argumens agatast the episco- acy is “the actual bishops.” against a number great severity. — Moody wants new hymns. He gives the Seriptures rather than tracts to Intidels. He would like to see places of worship warm and | Well ventilated. Prayers, he says, should be short. He knows of a bunch of grapes sent around among sick people from one to the other, and all the sick people were blessed. Fault-finding he believes, is a nulsance tn the church, He says, “Have no festivals, There {3 no gambling al prayer meetings.” —Mr. Gladstone read the morning lesson at family prayers when he was at Sandringham visiting the Prince ot Wales a few weeks ago. ‘The prince 15 not exactly the kind of man who would have famtly prayers in any country ex- cept England; but there nobody short of a | blatant athetst would dream of omitting the decorus morning service .to which everyoody comes, from master to stabie-boy. —The Chicago Alli nee has ceased, after brief experiment, being a Sunday paper. By way of explanation it says: When the Alliance first announced its Sunday delivery and afterward changed the day of its issue to Sunday eventa! our esteemed contemporary, the Arr ne>, sald, “The time will come when those who conduct the Alvicice will be sorry for their experiment.” ‘That we have grossly sinned in the sigit of some men we do not have a doubt, and shall undoubtedly receive the just penalty of their | condemnation; but that we displeased God in so doing. before whom we expect to appear to answer for every deed done, is quite another question. It has, however, entafled an amount | of work not anticipated tn the undertaking,aad this with the pain unintentionally given to our "st. friends, for our intention was good, has c us to conciude hereafter to make our issuing day Monday. — Mr. Taimage is predicting a spiritual re- vival to follow the present dearth. He laments that In a journey of two thousand miles, while the country was prospering, religion was dead. Ini oe Were 45,000 Converts, and last year (000. | only 2 In every church niné-tenths of the = | members are asleep. He reterred particulariy to Pitsburg, Cineinnatl, Louisville, and Lextng- ton, among other western cittes requiring | awaking up. He found beautiful churches everywhere, rapturous muste eloquent ministers, but the old work of saving souls had gone out of fashion. ‘There are churches enouzi. iu This country to Save the whole land in five years, but no practical result from the costly machinery, If John Knox, he satd, could get the lever of prayer under Scotland. he thongat the minister could get the pry under this cont and shake it rom the Atlantic to the Pa- —Dr. John Hal! says that “a ministry that | pleases everybody, espectally In the Presbyte- rian Church, may well suspect itseif. Look at | the doctrines we preach—human depravity, our Lord’s true Deity, the atonement on the Cross, the Personality and work of the Holy Ghost, the need by every man—the most ami- able and cultivated—or being regenerated, the Bible the sole rule of faith, self-denial a part of fan living, retribution on the im- penitent*concurrent with natural fmmortality, the obligation of the Sabbath; and all tbls with @ worship conspicuously plain and free trom showy and meretrictous ration. Make all this palatable to ‘society,’ tne ‘world,’ every- body! No; this whole message tramples on the pride of human inteliect; tt belittles the boast »d culture of the time, and It is, !f understood, in direct opposition to the ‘life’ which we are being per jaded t2 import and servilely copy, trom Far! After the Rabbits, Dramatis Persowe: A couple of guns stand- | kz two Others, ‘larly posted in the fleld beyoad the atten iuree keepers bending tn various attitudes over | tue burrow, previous to rushing toward the em of the oak to bestow themselves out of the ay; three ferrets who have disappeared in the bowels of the earth; a couple of veteran ter: ters, their heads twisted to one side, almost to ue disiccation of ‘their necks, and e: nerve in their bodies quivering with excitemeat; with x3 Many retrievers, thal are scarcely less inter- ested, though they do their best to k some dignity of deportment. So far as the mere ferreting goes, the terriers, and Ginger, bad better have been lett at ho:ne, since they are more likely to tumble into th® way than not. But they are useful tn huntiag out 4 ditch or a hedge-bottor there is of little conseyuence. a ommes: intentuque ora tenehant. The tails of the ferrets have been deliberately dragged out of sight; and all fs silence in the meantime. But as we feel, ittsthe ominous sflence that heralds earthquakes and convuisions of nature. There 1s a faint scraping and a shufle be- neath our feet; the shufiling 1s succeeded by a rushing to and fro; the scraping grows into a portentious rumbling, as if a working party of gnomes, with picks and wheelbarrows, Were mining the foundation of the ancestral oak. The grumbling echoes of that subterra— heous chase are now here and now there. If the distracted terriers were to follow thelr bent. they would be dancing over the sur face of the ground like a couple of globules of quicksilver. Even the sportsmen, aithough they have time to think, or because they have time, are conscious of something of the flutter that thrills on the nerves when a covey of black game 1s whirring up all around one. The rabbits have realized there is danger | above, and are loath to be forced by any amount | the stealthy enemies, all teeth, claw and Sinew. following up the remorseless chase with slow, malignant ferocity. Now some stout old buck tnust be standing tlercely at bay, bis bristling back set to the end of a burrow, and nts fore— = hammering viciously at his assailants. sou can follow the shifting fortunes of the single combat, for there seems to be but a Sod between you and the lists. Next there is a rush of desperation; he has taken a ilying leap over the ferret, and is gone by. ‘nen a second tugitive shows nis head above ground only to jerk {t back again, while a third bounces out or one | hole, lke a jack-in-the-box, to take a flying leap down another. But at last the generat sauee qué pent begins. ‘There a rabdit makes a rush for the ditch, and gains the covered way of matted weeds and thora, closely followed up by the hag soe] terriers, to be hustled out egain a little lower down, wuile a companion dares a straight dash across the open, to b> cleverly stopped tu due course. The winding: sheet of snow {3 rent and torn as rabbits tear their way out of hiddea | issues, to land themselves to the mid- | die of seattering charges; there is a quick rolling fire, with sharp citeking ot the barrel lunges as the smoking breech-loaders close on the cartridges; a shower of fey particles from the bushes falling on the curly coats of the retrievers: a scattering of floating lick, a cutting of twigs by the driving shot, a crimsoning of the spotless surface. Then the shooting dies away and ceases, as the bolting draws to an end. The | terriers are come back from their mad bursts of excitement, With panting tongues and heaving Sides; the keepers gather up the slain which the retrievers already been collecting for them, and finally, the ferrets reappear one by one, Dinking thelr fiery eyes,and licking their encar- mined jowls, to be caught up by the nape of tbeir necks and deposited snugly in the boxes.— Biackicooa’s Magazine, Killed in Mistake fer a Beaver. é It ts reported that on the morning of the i9t inst. a fearful accident on the Jeffer- son river, below the mouthof South Boulder. Mr. French, a miner, living near the Jefferson, heard what he sq was a beaver flounder- ing tu the river. He went to bis cabin, got a rife, and returning shot at the object, and as the noise ceased he took it for wed that the sei animal was dead. Later in the day Mr. French and bis partner, Mr. Hawes, made an effort to reach the object, which could be seen frozen tn the ice. As they drew nearer to the supposed beaver they were horrified to see \hat it was the body of aman. ‘The ce was 80 Weak that they could not reach the body and were unabie to recover It, even with the assi3t- ance of several neighbors. T! on our crowded to be William Davis, who lived on the ‘streets, but he has hg ahd extend a hand in | river a ttle below.—Helena (Montana) Inde- anthers make @ poor | renders. 7 “My mother,” sald Mrs. Courtn: witness Tiree the hushed air the whitening shower de. | In ‘a Brookiyn alias court, “had ryones ar (ARSE ps aoe | | Rie Seen Savane aaa ae With a com The cherished el? | Jones a'perfect gentleman, only he did very Put on their winter robes of purest white . Wrong in trying to throw my mother out of the “as bright save the new show meits | Window. x the mazy jOMsON. Stier hing atrested at Oneida, N. Y., Mr. Beecher says that when doctors are cailed | Veader, a’hotel neesaree Of, poisoning Hiram To treat any disease the nature of which they | county, with whoa aus Sed bose Lene G0 Lot understand, they call it malaria, wife {or Some time past. He opposes apnibilation in the fourtn lecture. | quietly — One of the features of the English Chen | of whom tt accordingiy proceeds to speak with | of hunting. You can conceive the sudsien agi- | tation in those peaceful tenements below, with | PERSTITIONS. Some of the Lite Omens of P 4 Life which Peopie. = {Philadelphia Times,} ay alking down Chestnut street recently in a pouring Lat a handsomely dressed lady was Been (0 5t0D a saagery ans Svooping on the wet wement pick Up cai commoy Pxecidems sonetimes occur to the feminine | tolet which render a pin, for the instant, one ; Ot the most valuable of and the i y Pposgessions, natural supposition was that such a one had | befallen the lady in question. But no, she | Inerely dropped the pia into her purse aud went her way, while we recalled the rhyme from Mother Goose, more thrifty than practical: See a pin and pick it up, i All the day you'll have dood luck; | See a pin atia let it lay, ! Bad tuck you'll have all day. } _ The superstition is 2 common one, shated by all classes,and doubtless originated in past | ages, when pins were scarce and valuable. We often hear it quoted as an instanceof Ste- phen Girard’s economy that he was never known to pass a pin without picking it up, but the question is an open one whether the Imperial Isrotherhood Assectation, whose ob- | | the old superstition. ‘This is the season of building, and it ts curt ous to observe how, when a ladder is erected against a wall, maby persons—in fact, the ma- jority of -by—go round it, out into the Street, rather than pass under, althouga daa- ger to life or limb from 80 doling there is ab30- iutely none. And of those who sturdily walk under, probably more than one remembers un- conioeanly the ill-luck Which Is sald to attend the The evil repute which attaches to Friday is well nigh world-wide. Among satlors ‘the LOS compe against this day is especiaily prev- alent. In order to disprove and counteract it In some measure, a wealthy English shipbuilder once bullt a vessel which was begun on Friday. fla- ished on Friday, christened “The Friday,” and Jaunched on Friday. It was with difliculty that men were found to man her, but tempted by high wages, a crew was at last obtained and she set sailon Friday. Unforvunately for the Success Of the experiment, she was never heard of again. SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT BAYS. Besides the promtence whic Friday has at- tatned, every day of the week has Its sup slitious attached and is of good or evii ome With most of them the reader 1s probably familiar, yet an article of this kind would hardly be complete without some enumeration of thé most common- Sunday's child ne'er lacks in place; Monday's chi-d is tair in face ‘Tuesday's chitd is full of era Weduesday’s child 1s sour and sad; Thursday's child is loving and jrlsd Friday's child is loving and givin. Aud Saturday's child shail work for lis living’ ‘Sneeze on a Monday yon sneezs for danger ; neeze on a ‘Tuesday you kiss a stranger. | Sneeze on a Weduesday you sneeze for aletter Suecze on a Thuradsy for something beiter Sueeze on a Friday you sueezs t» your sorrow Sneeze on a Saturday your sweetheart to-mc fact was due to motives of thrift or simply to | | Sneeze ou a Sunduy your safety seek, ‘The devil wili chasé you the while of the week. Cut your nails Mon Cut them on Tuesaay « pair of new shoes; Qut them on Wednesday you cut theru for heaiti: Cat them on Thursday "twill add to your wealch; Cat them on Friday you eut them for woe: Cut them on Saturday a journey you'll go Gut them on sunday you ent them for evi For ail the week lou you'll be ruled by thé devil. ‘The last two omens regarding Sunday must have originated in the days whea it wasa penal offense for a man to kiss his wif on Sunday, and when Melchisedee Jones was put fn the stocks for caluing on his siveetheart one Sab- ath afternoon. ‘There are intelligent and well educated peo- ple whom nothing can induce to try on a mourning garment when not in black them- selves. The writer has heard a lady upbratdiag her- seit with the keenest remorse on the death of her sister because a few gays previous she tried on a biack crape hat belonging to a triead visiting at the house. To reason with her and | eudeavor to prove that any connection b: the Lwo events was impossible comf ne Qut little, and to-day 1t is probable that nor of the family would, upon any consideration, e same thing again. avery oue knows the origin of the custom of burying the dead with their feet to the east, a custom universal among Christian nations, and } adopted at first that, as the Lord is to come in the east, the dead may arise and stand with their faces te Him in the resurrection. I! lsage of centuries has rooted tunis custom so | aceply that it is little wonder that waen It 1s departed from the superstitious shade their heads and prophesy that no good will come of It. Some of us, Indeed, who do not in such case actually expect another death in the family | must confess to feeling as though our dead could not rest quletly irjaid otherwise ‘tis time-honored position. SETTING THE HOUSE IN ORDER, Probably insurance agents are the only | People who have any tdea how many men. sensible in other respects, are kept from’ insur their lives by the fear, either on their own Part or on that of some member of their fam- flies, that the act might shorten their lives, and there are sober business men who die and leave thetr estates to endless itigation rather tuan make a will, because of the vague fear lest thus “setting thelr house in order” “hasten the day or death. Fiom the same fear men refrain from alteriag or adding to an old hottse, and we have known # man prominent in his nelguborhood, wealthy aud otherwise liberal to his family, who year atfer year ved on in a dwvelltug watch was a Continual morutication to his wite and daugh- ters, resisting all their entreattes to rebuild, so tly was he convinced that he were 30 co do his death would soon follow. This superstition fs hot an uncommon one among old peopte. “Say your prayers, child; you'll have seven Years’ troubie,” once sald a lady to the writer, when the latter had broken her doll’s looking- | giass. The augury was fulfliled, but a3 four ot | Seven were the black years of the late civil war, the trouble was by no means confined to tne unlucky looking-glass shatterer. Country foik—some tn jest, some in earnest— translate the voice of a chicken-cock crowing at the door into “Stranger coming to-day,” and Wwe remember an old lagy who invariably made preparation for company when the warntag note was sounded upon her premises. In thirty years, she declared, the sign had never talled er. ‘The same old lady had as a pet a cat as black as any which ever figurea in tale of necro- mancy. “Keep a black cat,” she used to say. when the hue of her favorite was commented on, “keep a black cat and you'll never lack for money.” She was wealthy, but a few miles off lived an ae black srone eros of ee op ik as her own, who (the negress, not the cai had the credit of witchcraft, and who, in spite ot her reputed connection witn the devil and ths ownership of the cat, had hard work to keep Soul and body together. MET AT EVERY TURN. ‘There are a thousand and one superstitions Stung upon the thread of our every-day lives aud which meet us at every turn. Few of us aie weak enough to let them tntlaence our } action, yet most of us remember them un- pleasantly now and then, while very many of | Us. did we own the truth, have one or more | owens which we would prefer not to encounter. | _." t cannot bear to have my left eyelid quiver,” Said a lady of cultivation and average Intelll- g nee. “Of course I belleve there 1s nothing tn | it. but then T can’t help feeling, when {t does 80, as If trouble were coming.” vienty of people who ought to know better are firm believers in the superstition that 1t 1s unlucky to place the sioes which one has worn | during the otherwise at night than with | luc loes pointitg to the door, and cannot sleep in peace unless they have done so. Years ago Uke Dellef tn the evil omen of spilling salt was So prevalent Chat it was ridiculed by Addison in the Spectator; Dut the superstition still holds its own, ‘The evil may be averted by throwing a pinch of salt over the lett shoulder, a charm Wich Is clearly a relic of the old heathen cere- tnuntal of casting rice in the air and pouring Ubations on the ground as a propitiatory offer- ing to unseen spirits. Among the signs which ar supposed to foretell death are tle ringing ln the ear, known as the death-bell; the death- Wereh (a peculiar noise caused by a small insect Ung its way through wood), or a portrait faiiing from its place on the wall, and each of them has more than once given ‘nervous per- Sous a ft of the blues. When the eyes of a corpse refuse to shut they are ghastly enough, in all conscience, to give color to the superstition that they aré watch- ing for some one who Is soon to follow, and ifa horse chances to stumble near a graveyard tts rider may be excused if his sensations thereat are none of the most pleasant, even though he is not so foolish as to consider it an actual death warning. a Ita door opens without apparent cause the Germans have a saying, which has come across the water to their American descendants, that @ spirit has entered, and the vold, nervous shiver, which most persons have felt more or less Often, is held to result from footfalls over a future grave of him who experi- e you cut them for news than tn | 2 the dying, never fail to open door or window that the parting soul may pass out. suger- eT think, of Scotch ane isin, reader will remember Meg Merrilies at the dy1n, bed of the gypsy, chanting: we ‘Open lock—end strife— ‘Come death and end life. DINNBR PARTIES. Tragic stories are related in various parts of the country, at home and abroad, or evil re- sulting to the unlu guests at dinner parties or Many intelligent and educated people harbor this suspicion. Bismarck, it is refuses under any circurastances to sit down toa table with the fatal number, and a prominent business man of New York is re- ported to owe his start in life to the ready tact ‘with which he suddenly remembered a ot ment, when the failure of two to appear at a dinner given by A. T. the number present to thir- teen, OME. Stewart's evident annoyance. All of us-number among our acquaintance wives who never remove thelr wedding ring,aad who, were “T should thiak his ears woald burn,” isa Temark when bject of a continued conversation, zd “30 many Splches you take upor you, so many lies i oe ape is pee tes when a rent is hastily sewn u) out chang- ing the torn it. f in nearly every land the moon fs the subject of numerous superstitions. She reguiates the changes of the weather—phases must be con- ing, in dozens of the common pursuits of life, and to see the new moon through trees over the left shoulder, with no money in the pocket, i3 thought to be terribly unlucky. Should a coal pop out from a woot fire and burn a lady’s dress, the event fortelis a suitor tor her beart and hand, and if two spoons come together in the sugar dish, a wedding in the family ts to be expected with equal certainty. “Sing before breakfast. you'll cry before sup. per,” and “‘Biessed be the bride the sua sainss on,” have passed toto familiar ad: Swallows building ta a chimney bring good luck to the house, but not to the dwellers therein if the birds ‘be molested. Kling a cat by many is considered a dire misfortune, and ‘he who doea {t 1s doomed es life to failure in everything he under- 28. If a strange cat adopts a house voluntarily as her home ehe ts believed io bring guod luck to the household. Numbers of intelligent people keep a pocket- piece of gold or sfiver for “good luck.” “The devil dances in an empty pockei.” And others, generaily Old people. would no> for much ieave horse shoe found lying ta th road without pleking It up. An old horse snoe rings owner. Horace Greeley kept alway horse-shoe over the door of his sanecum, and tbe more or jess decorated horse-shoe which Plays such a part in modern ornamentation ts situply the revival of an old superstition. WHAT IS HIS CRIME? erious Person Arrested by the on Police—Strange and Si: nificant Letters Fa don Eis P. son—A Wife’s Anguish and a Hi band’s Despair. POUGHSEEPSIB, Dec. 19, 1550. On Saturday Officer Thomas P. Bryant, of Hudson, came to this efty and informed the lice here that at three o'clock 1n the morntuz e had arrested a well dressed man in Hudson, while the latter was suspiciously loitering about @ store in Warren street. On him were found letters which seemed to indicate that a serious crime bad been committed at Greenville, Pitts county, N.C. Wheu arrested he gave hts name as John ¥. Johnson, of Washington, b. C., but afierward satd the last place he Came from was Poughkeepsie, Where he had been a student th a volege. a rusty TOUCHING ANGUISH. One letter found on him was addressed to “1. £. Nelson, Poughkeepsie,” and dated “Greea ville, Saturday, Octo signed Your devoted wite, ’ Lizzle Besides other matters of a private are ti te iS elson. uature, do not. know what to write you. In your first, letter you expect me to believe you are coming home. You know that I know you can never, no never, come home again. If you had given’ine more warning when you left: had intimated anything was wrong; tf you had jet me know it was ao everlasting tuueral, It would not have been so hard. You know Lexpected to go to the conyentt anu Of course Went to Work to get ready. It y hac only warned me, Let me hear from you. Do not run any risk to doso. Tamatraid to send us. Puls may be the Last you will ever get from me. 18 THIS THE ANSWER? Another letter round on him was dated Poughkeepsie, November 23, Dut not signed. Lt Was addressed to no one, and seems not to have been enveloped. Among other thlags tn it wre the followt I have only been a drawback to you ever since | | I was married to you. iO har It is hard. parc with you. While I may hay Wrung {na great many insiane: Was my only thought. er + Thave wotling more to look forward to. Onr Uttle boy ts too young to know anything. My only hope 1s to see you and the baby once more and kiss you both and lay down and die bes.de mny litue girl When you have re this I shall have solved the great my: shall, the good God wiliing, be with m: girt and my mother tn that better world. shall have learned whether the good God 1s lenwent or kind with such a wretched man a. [ aw. I shall be before God to receive the re Ward. I um not afraid to go; not afraid to me my darling little girl, And oh! my darling, Will plead’ so much for your happiness: must look as everything happening for the - i would have only been a burden to you. You have no further risk to run in writing to me. This ts the last letter a human being will re- ceive from my hands, and this requires no an. swer, for in a few hours, if the Bivle 1s trae, 1 Shall kuow what the future is. My last words and blessing, and a prayer to the good Cod to Wetch over you, that you may kuow no want or suffering." Kiss our jitde boy gooaby for me, and for God’s sake, for the love you have tor me, don’t let him forget ine, It f could take you 1p my arms and kiss you bain! But to dic So far away from you is har. May God forever bless and keep you and may we meet In that other world where ull 1s brigutnes3 aud joy and peuee, fs the last prayer and iast words of your Miserable husbana. ‘The above,it wili be seen, was penned amonth ago. A DIARY. There was also fouad on the mana diary | in which was written the followin: Left Poughkeepsie on my tramp December 14: roads full of ice and snow, and f walked thir- teen miles with nothing to eat. I passed through Pleasant Valley and Washing‘on Hoeilow, and slept in a bara with a tarm jaborer. DECKMBER 15.—Started at elght a.m. and passed through Clinton Corners, where I bought ten cents’ worth of crackers and cneese and stayed all night with a Mr. Case, at Case's Corners, where I was well treated. DECEMBER 16.—Started again at eight a.m., and Dr. Herrick gave me a ride for a mile. Then T walked and passed through Rock City, Upper Red Hook, Clermont and Blue Stores. Stayed all night at the latter place at a farm house. The diary contains no record of what he did on the 17th. When he was arrested he saidhe was looking for work. He said that the letters found on him were given to him in Savannah, Ga., by aman named Nelson to send to Green- ville, but ne had neglected it. While a student iu Poughkeepsie he boarded in Crandell street, and went away owing considerable board, an also Look a student’s overcoat, which the Hud- ‘so! police have recovered. When he first came here he seemed to have plenty of money, and paid his tuition fee in advance and patd some board in advanee. He also speat money freely among companions. in his diary also were names of females known to the police as disreputable. It also contained numbers of disreputable houses and sporing houses in New York city. One letter found on bin was apparently from his sister, and in it she ks him for a large sum of money sent her tocomplete her education at some college. Tbe entire case is yet shrouded in mystery, though the Hudson police are of the opinion that the prisoner has committed a serlous crime. Letters describing the case have been sent to Greenville, Pitts count: :. ¥. Herald, (Bor The Crismus Times am A-come, When de sheppuds watch de sheey on de plain ob Beflehem, Shrisuius times am a-come.) Dey was ’stonished at de star dat come a-swingin’ ober dem. (Crismus times am a-come.) Dey lean upon de sheppud-erooks a-shadin ob der eyes, (Crismus times am a-come.) An’ dey know de eun ob glory was w swine for to rise. (Crismus times am a-come.) De wise men walk wid dey heads ben’ low *Twell dey hear a ban’ o' music dat dey uel befo, An’ de angels come a-siuzin’ wid de stars in der han’s, An’ der lamin’ wings a shinin on de heathun lan's, De kings ob de earf woke up dat nicht, (Crismus times am a-come.) An’ der crowns look shabby in de hallyluyer iizht, (Crismus times am a-come, ) But de po’ man riz an’ an’ tuck his ole hat down, (Crismus times am a-come.) An’ hit look so fine dat he fought it was a crown. (Crismus times am a-come.) Ole Jordan roll high an’ ole Jordan roll low, ‘An’ de star stood still whar de folks had to xo, An’ do angels flew away ayin, a leavin’ arter dem A blaze-road from Juda to de new Jerusalem. Den pile on de light’ood an’ line out de hym’. (Crismus time am a-come.) Ole freedom lit his can’le when de niggah’s chance was slim. (Crismus times am a-come.) Dere's no mo" coonin’ ob de lox in de nicht. (Cristaus times ain a-come.) O glory to de lam' for de hallyluyer light. (Orismus times am a-come. De Orismus possum am a-bakin’ mighty snus, ‘So ban’ aroun’ de tumbler an’ de little yeller juz, Wid de corn-cob stopper, an’ de honey in de bowl, An’ glory hallyluyer an’ a bless yo" soul. Joan Hexny Bonen. hear and some time were alia ung ne has ath oe Sine 3 ce come hopelessly insane, is ood luck. doubly so if found by tne | it you | Borcorr Was “BOTCOT- TED.” | (Dubliz: Cor. New York Herald.) | 7, One of the most ex'raordmary facidents tn H the Dietary, of toe Las been Spee Faget fing” of lord Erne's agent at Lough Mask H prepa EAL wil ve remembered how a j Small British army marched from the ratiroad | Station at Claremorris to Baliimroba and Louch making, fm killing meat, in plant- | Mask, guarding a small band of Uister laborers | Who had vorunteered to get in this man Bos- | Cott’s turnips and other crops. It wasa stra weird murch that stormy night, when {country peopie from all the Surroun + district assembled and hooted and hissed the passing procession, sad | Bttered dark threats against the invading |. | Orangemen. T said couniry peopie, though It sbould be added that only women and elitidren took part tm the demonstration,for the men, along the road old and young. in obedience to the word of col te ees powerful organtzation Known as the Land League, carefully «kept out ; of the way, treating the expedition With silent contempt. The Land Leasue was guided by Men who were wise enough to Know ihat & | Conilict with the large military force sent out | to protect the rellet expedition Could only end | in bloodshed and, perhaps, disaster, thouch | | gm informed that 40,000 armed irishmen could | have been collected’ at Balltorobe at a day’s | notice; and they gave orders, transmitied quickly to all parts of Mayo, that the expedi- Uon should not be disturbed or attacked. a so the Ulstermen arrived safely at ough Mask, and went then to work amid rain and snow and storm, and in three weeks succeed | getting in Boycott’s crops, saving a fe red pounds worth of farm’ produccs at to the country estimated at from £10,000. On Friday last, the reltet wor completed, the Ulstermen were escorted tro, Lough M: to Ballinrobe, and on Sat morning from Ballinrobe to Claremorrls, ¥ they took the train for the north. ESCAPE OF ROYCOTT AND FAMILY. | On the same day (Saturday) Bosco family were removed. hidden tn an ambilaac wexon, from Lough Mask, Claremorr | by & company oi hussars. Mr. Boyeort, with his fa for London, ieavi | fom a beautiful home by an Impoveris wretched band of peasants (laborers), been driven to desperation and to’ * Boycot- ting” because of his perty tyranny, exercised in 4 manner that would have done ‘tio dl. | to the hardest-hearted slave driver th: hela the whip over the serfs placed uuder bls charge. It must be remembered that Boycott was driven out of «MOL becaus® Of any erimes-committed by him against the tenets of | the Land League. Lora Erae, tor whom Boycott Was the agent, is not_a hard landlori, and bis tenants did not band together to panish the agent’ because of the Earl's misdemeanor. Pressed down by verty and wretcnedne: they were apparently the most abject of auman creatures, living on without hope and withont atuture, ' For years they bore in pattence the indignities put upon tiem by this petty tyrant, and they would have borne these indiguities } tnuch longer had not some of tue leaders of th j Land League taught them that they were hu man belngs and how to take revenge tor the | indignities that had been pnt upon tea. } Bot inany 3 sluce Mr. Boycott first w | to Lough Mask. hoping, as he ald a few end there, with his fan. and as he might have don: | ago, to rt = s 2 5 5 3 Z 5 5 £ & z = z E; | A SKETCH OF BOY Permit me first to gly c “Boycotted”™ man’s tite. on Of tant clergyman he was first sent to Blackheath, near Wools years of age School at Shooter's Hil pleted his early colleg Woolwich for military sala, he evinced aptitude tor the stu fare'and military matters, halt he was gazett at Preston, 2 OF | then he sold | ried. He | mine leased @ farm from Mr. | Situated halt way bets on-buir; but finding that farming he looked abc which to Carry on the busines. the winter of the Crimean war he took a fara | of 4.000 acres on the Island 61 . Muuuder the | trustees of the Acbill Mission. ‘I'ue land was | very poor, and he had upon tt some six or etgiat | | Luiidred Head of sheep ud a couple of hundred head of cattle. It was charged agalust hira that while here he dtd all in hts power to assist the mission in thelr religious persecutious, ‘Then the former agent resugntug, Boycott ap- plied for the agency of Lord Erue’s Lough Mask | estate. This appointment he recetved, but for the first three years he continued to farm on the island, crossing over to the mainiand wh ever occasion required. During Uns Ume by sal(i to have got along admirably with tne u ants; Indeed, his troubles seem to hav commenced when he removed to bts re: on the mainland. Away trom them Island he had no oceaston to practice thar sys tem of petly tyranny which since made ulm an objcct of hatred ail the country round. A HUNTER AND STEEPLECHASER. After settling at Lough Mask he bec known as a lover of sport, a fearless hun'e and steeplechase rider, winuing His colors were known on mauy an irish pro vinctal course. He showed indomitable pluck in the saddle, and while lacking the grace and finish that distinguishes the practised” amateur his boldness and resolution never forsook him. He heid, it should be added, a high reputation upon tae turf, his integrity in rdantag horses hever being doubted, while he was never bebind in settling with the ringmen whenever le lost mouey on his ventures. There are many stories told of Lis bold ridlug. Once he rode a steeplechase with a clay pipe in his } mouth, and coming to grief ai one of the ditches he was picked up greatly hurt, but holdin} teeth. T many pr.zes, route toa great race meeting with an armed es cort of constabulary. A “hall fellow weil met,” at stich meetings he was generally bubbed “Captain,” though the title doés not belong to him. At home, however, on his tarm, acting as agent to Lord Erne, he displayed none of the qualities which had made hima popular atthe race | course or the countryside meetings. A smail man, | possessed of an iron will, quite out of compari- son with his physical strength, he resorted to a. method of enforcing obedience that angered the peasantry placed under his care. PETTY TYRANNY. If one of his farm laborers, wearled after a day’s work, took a short cut across the tields to his miserable hut, which he called his home, “Captain” Boycott would fine him a small sum of money. If a peasant’s hen was found tres- passing On the captain’s field another fine would be mn] if a peasant left one of his | implements In the wrong place, a fine ranging from two to six pence would be imposed. In fact, he fined them for all and everytaing, and atthe end of the week the poor herd would tind! What instead of recetving his miserable dole of elght or Dine shillings, he would get only Irora five to seven, the rest belaz confiscated by the “captain” for fines. It was a miserable life that he led his peasant workmen. bullying and cursing them from morning till night, marching round his farm gun in hand, and bis hard face, his gray beard and bis bandy legs, a terror to those around hi He treated the peasants worse than If they had been slaves. THE DAY OF RETRIBUTION. But finally retribution came. The Land | | Leaguers visited the country, they taught the | miserable serfs the great lesson that they were human beings, and told them to join together and to refuse to labor on the farm. Imagine, if you can, the depth of misery to which these Insh peasants had been driven and the despe- ration whith they felt betore they gatned courage enough to carry out thelr resolution of “Boycotting” ihe offender, Peasants who had to live on the miserable pittance of a few shil- lings a week displayed a heroism that should be duly honored and chronicled. Accepting starva- tlon for themselves and their families, they refused to work for the man who had so long tyrannized over them, and so it came about that “Captain” Boycott saw his turnips and his crops rotting in the ground and not a laborer within a radius of twenty miles who would lend a hand to rescue them or touch his polluted money, even to save themselves from Want. You can scarcely any idea of the dread work of this revenge unless Mr. Bouci- cault sends you his revised drama of “The O'Dowd,” where the scene recently enacted at Boycott’s is given in drastic faithfulness. And so It came about that “Captain” Boycott had toappeal to.the British government for assist- ance, and a large army of scidiers had to be sent to Lough Mask to protect the Ulster volun- teers in their work of gathering in the crops. ‘Poor Whites” in Congress. The fact that the poor white element is out- stripping the old aristocracy at the south,which was tonfessed ‘by the Charleston News and Gou- rier the other day, receives striking illustration ta the to front of Senators Brown of Georgia and Mahone of Virginia. The one hauled to lonega, Ga., for years and hawked the" bright irish lad, ‘waa’ so poor tate re at s was Gived ‘pubite ald in his early education. Brown, madea lucky investment in a bit of wild land,on which a copper mine was afterward discovered. A half-interest in the mine sold for $25,000, and this money was invested in land that laid the basis of the Senator's present fortune. He gave $50,000 not long ago without ee eae RS ise cube col an issue i self, a8 Jefferson Davis found out during the rebellion and the noisy Bob Toombs rebels in com aif to the cause of negro eauoa~ mitted himse! cause = tion it means business.—Springteld Republi- can. E1iza BgroMan, the foolish Phfladelphia wife, has ¢) her mind and elects tore in New York an ee ne the station and beinz ne ne eae aa er ae care of the matron thereof, offering marriage, and dealing in other nonsense. | tour arethen ; and opened three or four times | folds take the proper shape: and by } work; but with creat cure the Osaka Tan-mak | enevurage a | pressed her claims with the assarance JAPANESE FANS. The Manner in Which They are Manufactured. uring the past few years Japanese fins have become so poptiiar in aoe Tear KS sty em An ‘tm which thes are wanufact prove acceptable. ournat Bays isthe princtpal city for the manutas of the oe or fotding fans, which ar aa exclustvely exported, or ANIDOO Kitid Detny Made There: ~ wiiing.etes, : i executed at pence up to aby Wi sist - Which are te Mabaiactared iy used by the be Getatis connected As th many other ! the principle of dtvis tn the fan-making The ba made in Osaka and Kioto by prival in thetr o various no individ Sof tam the lower part an t9 sning wertmen, who fo biWeKS have Ores uy what e3 Of (acd fat nor the best p. Wh'cd the fan is to be composed, wil! retain the crease, and Uuls Ube them between two pieces of paper, saturated with oll, and properly ereased, ided together and placed) un Aa beavy wet When suflicient. time has elapsed the sh aken out and Use moulds used ag: sheets being packed up for twenty-four hours in thelr folds. process t$ to take the ribs, which are Tarily atTanged lu order on a wire, aud “sel them Into their places on one of the sheets, after it has beeu spread out on a Ddlock and pasted. A dashof paste then gives the wood- work adh S,and that part of the process 1s by aftixing the rex sheet of paper. fan has “to be fo ber a sive pow tntshed Th the mo) fan 18 put upto dry, it has recel haudiing than any foreign paper could indeed foreign paper has ueen trie 1 bad to be given up, 23 unsuitable for t Tar a had been able to make some fans with print picwures, which had been sent over fr tea, though they were luvariably ob! oné Iace of Japanese paper. The s had to be changed. ag the two faces or the fan 1 Tupning in poluted ribs, are and are p pla: m the mann out-ide lacquered pi areulldone tn Osaka and Kioto, and s¢ cbs in or the highly orng- iS is NOt sullicient to duction of large quantities | of lass work. When the insides are dry, the riveting of the pieces together, tnclu: the outer covering, is rapldiy @ da: Of \arnish quiekiy Hulshes te tan. The highest price that was ever gi fan in the days of seclusion tro ign . ‘al of forelgners{n the country Y uave Deen made to order at. pri 4210 £6 sterling. The gene Lowy Tans Tange from 2s. 0) ¥, (hough an extraordinarily e: uut at £10 per 100, ‘The es seldit exceeded 10.0 but in recent years no num have been export 4 and Yokohama a ef notes It may be in ihe number of fans the centennial exhibition 4 reached the iarge figure of >) waled Cost of WhICh Was £ , anid in hese were over and above the ordinary anual export alfuded to before. d rarely exceeded a sove! i11¥i a year for iren's Appeal,’ the of the boclety for the ¥ n Ue Charlie had his boots of and say Lew stockings on. thrust ou low. What are yo ie?” said his mother. “ ings to Dod.” Lite May, whose oni a long procession, one ¢ and said: “Ob nm, M1 B.'s house the Fourth of July a very long funeral of soldiers with music, and I want to iG A gentleman says that in his towaa_1 of Hite giris hearing a good deal abou great fair to be beld in Boston for abused dren, and wishing to raise some money for ock- uowlny my we 4 i planned 4 small fair of thelr own. One of tem, to who siands about about even with Li birthday. came to ask him for a donat! fair is entirely unsectarlan.” Little W ad a present of something ni vais mother cave bim this advice, ‘on Innst generous to your muster be.” " eaid he, ina troubled tone, ‘drainer she'd have {t for her owa, And be generous tome.” ‘There was an old woman, who lived in a hut, But the door was so lance that it never would slat Said the sindly old lsay, **I'm eure I don't care, For now { ean have ail the more pure, frosi air” So she took oi the door, which she used as a door, And healthy and happy Was 6 evermore. As my little six-years old Delsy was care- leesiy turning over the leaves of a Bible a few Mornings since, she read, “My son, sin not with thy, lips." “What does it mean to sin with one’s ps?” Lasked. Ina tlash came the em- phatic answer, while the little face grew sert ous and intent, “Not to tell true whea you say honest.” Two llttle sisters were talking about hearen after they Were in bed. After a Ume said one quite triumpnantly, “I shall go there first be. cause Iam older than "The ittle papa and mamma and me.” “Yes, inder should. It’s much the handsomest plats. A poor little orphan had tne sood fortun be edopted by a most excelient lady of Roxbury. Lille had a very plein face anda very aisposition. ‘The ouly thing she murmured about was her extreme platnnes3. One day, to her oft-repeated regret that she was not beau- Uful, her namma replied that she ought to ve thankful that God lad made her so good phat all who knew would love her, and would not think of her looks, “But I think,” rejoined Lillte, “that I should love the Lord a little better if He had made me ban dsome “Cress” writes from Parts to the Ch Tater-Oceau: Tt 18 & treat to see a Parisi cross a muddy street. She advances tp-to: the edge of the pavement. There she p: lke a bird ready for oy and then deftly sue raises her dress more than enough to show her embroidered skirt, the dalnty hose and elegant bottines, and without more de! petucing wp Gling to the Eary fost that hardly refusing to © g ardly leay an impression of it. Landed on the other side, she gives her fine feathers a Httle shake into place, and passes On with shoes that look as if pul On at that moment. Watch an Englishwoman immediately after. ward. She reaches the curbstone, comes to a dead standstill, and stolidly contemplates the muddy road. Finally she selects a route. Then very cautiously she lifts her shoes, making sare that the tops of her boots are under cover, and then slowly advancing, she puts her right foot out—pium it the water oozing over it, and then splash! splosh! until the other side ts Teached, when with soiled skirts and soaked shoes, she proceeds on her wet and muddy a Wi 3 Nothing could be more characteristic of their respective nationalities, and nothing could be using than the mutual contempt for Diners-out lately returned trom London say that a8 & result of the dairy association exlitvi- tion, held there last spring, Stilton cheese hus estimation of Britisn Milan. "This cheese is tender, creamy and of a delicate rye whereas the eed 13 too = hard, coarse. report 0 gTowing popularity of a newly-invented drink called zoedone, which ts put up in champagne Pe Ah te Seraved with ngs and tts virtue carbonic acid gas, Consists in its being a tonicand stimulant with. out containing alcohol. Its composition ts a trade secret, but some salt of iron appears to be the chief ingredient. As a up the morning after a dinner or ball Its effect is sald rivalled.—Ner Fork Sun. A Mysreiuovs S7ar, called the Pilgrim, which Was observed in M45, 1264 ae expe astronomers to ng. It was Poser in 1572 as mightier tnan Jupiter, and “such was {1s brilliancy Chat persons were able to detect it at noon mn a clear sky, and at nigat when the sky was so Overcast ast hide all other stars," It appears probably be visible for several weeks in the consiellation of Cassiopen. ° ad may | dotag that for, Char- | * | BULKDS, Common... eeeeee eee | | or toprevent itif yo: Ite Cause and [ts Greet Increase, Whe ix Safefrom Their Own Motires, Have Thetr Origin In the Nervous Centers recent fac ACS.of pary and depressiou as to > When we ivy Lives of wid bright minds time to their own hands, we that, if we are nervous © it is da omreelf, b you tug for yourwif if you ure nervous, nese. 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